David Stark

Host of @theathletespod 🎙 top 1% pod in the 🌎 A platform to educate, entertain & inspire the next generation of athletes! 📸@davestark1 @cookstarkmgmt

[David Stark @DaveStark97]

Getting mistaken for McDavid happens occasionally for me...

Getting sent videos of randoms taking videos of me thinking I’m Connor McDavid is a whole new level

[David Stark @DaveStark97]

@jpolly22 I think it’s a win win actually

[David Stark @DaveStark97]

@Maxhoma bottle of birdie juice here with your name on it 🤝

[Nick Huber @sweatystartup]

Entrepreneurship is like an adult marshmallow test.

Most people aren't wealthy and successful because most people are naturally really bad at making decisions that maximize results 5 and 10 years down the road.

They are broke, out of shape, unhealthy and unhappy because they naturally make decisions that maximize pleasure today and tomorrow or next week instead of far off into the future.

And unfortunately, most people think of entrepreneurship as a get-rich-quick scheme. The media likes to celebrate stories of people like Zuckerberg who went from his college dorm room to being a billionaire in just a few years.

Many stories are written about these unicorns but they are one in a million success stories.

The truth is that entrepreneurship is anything but a get-rich quick scheme.

For essentially everyone, generational wealth and success in America is usually a VERY long game.

So long, in fact, that it takes multiple generations!

People immigrate to America with nothing. They work hard just to get by and send their kids to a decent school.

Those kids improve and then advance in society. They become doctors or lawyers and create stability and a backstop for their kids. And then those kids become entrepreneurs and accumulate even more wealth in their lives.

The lesson: Play the long game. Understand that it is a process. You must suffer and do hard and boring things for many years to have great results.

Making money, despite what you read on social media, is actually quite hard.

Play the long game!

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Life advice nobody told you: Violent consistency is the only path to achieve what you want.

It's not going to be pretty. It's not going to draw oohs and aahs from the crowd. Because it looks messy in the days. It's getting out of bed when you don't want to. It's sitting down at your desk when you're tired. It's pounding your head into a wall one more time. It's ugly. It's unimpressive. But it works.

Quantity is a necessary precursor to quality. You cannot create once and hope for it to be perfect. You have to create a lot. Every single day.

I recently came across a story in Art & Fear that I love:

A ceramics teacher split a class into two groups. One would be graded on the quantity of their output, the other would be graded on the quality of their output. On the final day, the first group would have their total output of pots weighed, while the second group would have one pot judged.

When grading day arrived, something fascinating happened:

"The works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the 'quantity' group was busily churning out piles of work—and learning from their mistakes—the 'quality' group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay."

Quality is a byproduct of quantity. Violent consistency. That's the real recipe.

[Josh Reynolds @JoshReynolds24]

Idk man, seeing the emotion from Victor Wembanyama after clinching the Western Conference is so damn cool…

I love every second of it. Superstars just aren’t built like this. Shit absolutely means something to him. He’s one of one. Cool as hell.

[Golf Canada @GolfCanada]

🎯A hole-in-one for A.J. Ewart!

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I'm convinced that the single greatest challenge for any ambitious person is eliminating the guilt associated with free time and rest.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

There are at least 4 types of wealth:

- Financial wealth (money)

- Social wealth (status)

- Time wealth (freedom)

- Physical wealth (health)

Be wary of jobs that lure you in with 1 and 2, but rob you of 3 and 4.

[David Stark @DaveStark97]

Gotta love a good goalie

[Rick Dhaliwal @DhaliwalSports]

Linus Karlsson and his 15 goals has been a great story this season for the Canucks.

Now he is on the radar for Team Sweden for the World Hokey Championships.

He just continues to impress.

[🔆eleni🔆 @strongforecheck]

The hard work, humility, and endless patience it’s taken to get to this moment makes me so proud to work with you, @SAbstreiter #TeamCSM

[TSN @TSN_Sports]

Sandra Abstreiter made an INCREDIBLE reflex save!

#PWHL

[David Stark @DaveStark97]

I’m trying to buy a golf course in Canada.

Who wants to be a part of it?

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“To be successful at anything, you don’t have to be special. You just have to be what most people aren’t: consistent, determined and willing to work for it. No shortcuts.”

— Tom Brady

[Way of Man @WayOfMan_]

How to feel 10x better:

- Workout
- Play sports
- Help others
- Meet friends
- Sit in the sun
- Eat real foods
- Prioritize sleep
- Delete instagram
- Practice gratitude
- Hydrate with water
- Stop watching p*rn
- Spend time in nature

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Naval Ravikant literally explained how to productize yourself to escape the rat race:

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

Alan Watts gives some of the most insightful thoughts on life and its worth watching 1000%

[James Clear @JamesClear]

A simple rule for life that rarely fails:

Optimize for enthusiasm. Make as many choices as you can that leave you feeling energetic and interested. Pay attention to when you have the urge to pursue or participate in something and do more of it.

[JJ Watt @JJWatt]

Like many others, been saying it for years.

Anyone who discourages your child from playing multiple sports does not have your child’s best interests in mind.

Period.

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

This quote will change your MINDSET ‼️‼️